August Wilson's got liver cancer.
Sad news.
If you don't know who August Wilson is, he's a Pittsburgh native playwright. His plays document, decade by decade, Pittsburgh, specifically the Hill District which, in its heyday, was up there with Harlem and the African American neighborhoods in towns like Chicago. Everybody stopped by.
Then Pittsburgh went eminent domain on its ass, built the Civic Arena (now the Mellon Arena--where the Penguins play and where I graduated and saw Tori Amos, but not at the same time), and things got slummy.
At least one of his plays (The Piano Lesson, and I also could have sword Fences) was turned into a TV movie.
Here's some more August Wilson info, from a more reliable source than my blog: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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